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I wouldn’t personally. But either way all these forks are silly considering the non issue they’re addressing. Though it’s their developers, God-given time to waste. Should they choose to. It was a merge request from an external unassociated developer. To add an optional text field to a bunch of other already optional and generally unfilled text fields. With no method to check or enforce anything. To the nameD subsystem of systemD. If the text field offends you don’t fill it. Save your power for those implementing checking and enforcement.
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I can definitely see both sides. On one hand I do agree the actual change itself is pretty meaningless. Just don’t fill the systemdb entries with any info. However what the change represents is much more alarming. It signals a foot in the door to open source devs conplying to the authoritarian whims of a governmental power. They should definitely not comply with dumb legeslature like this, especially considering their userbase. TLDR: the change itself is dumb and small, but what it means for the foss community is much more alarming and dangerous.
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@Eldritch@piefed.world · 26d
I still don’t. Unfortunately these groups are still required to follow laws regardless of how stupid they are. And many more than this are indeed, very stupid. If you want to have riteous anger at someone who deserves it that might have positive impact. Rail against the governments. Not to downplay what happened in Nazi Germany. But would you think it reasonable to harras and harangue German Jews who wore the star of David to identify themselves as required by the government? I don’t think a reasonable person would. When I bump into groups that have to comply with stupid state laws here where I live, I don’t blame those groups. I blame the state like any sensible person would. Not attacking and blaming other victims of the state. Do you think they should resist the state? That’s all well and good. Will you be there to defend them when the state comes? To fund these random devs defense? No? You won’t and they’re largely on their own? Then what do they owe to us? What entitles us to give them so much grief?
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